Spent the July 4th weekend in Muskogee, Oklahoma joining my r/c sub modeling comrades of SubRon5 in our annual get together. It was held at Batfish Park, home of the WWII museum boat USS Batfish (SS-310). Member Don Baker set up the site with a pond to run in next to the boat and it was a great time.
Due to lack of luggage space I chose to take only my 1/96 USS Thresher. In order to get it running I basically restored the 12 year old WTC which I had disassembled last summer due to leaking.
While the WTC went back together well, the electronics gave me fits. A Viper 10 amp mini speed control was new to the mix and every time I tried to fire the system up it showed a signal error. I would take it apart, check the connections, spread everything across the bench, and it would finally work. Then, once reinstalled in the WTC, the same error would occur: no transmitter signal received by the receiver. I finally gave up and threw it all in the car for the trip.
When it came time to run on Friday I buttoned things up and flipped on the system -- and it worked like a champ! I got three extended runs over two days without a glitch. It felt great to have a working boat in the water. All I can deduce is there must be some sort of significant interference at my home which is confounding my radio on the bench.
The new speed control worked well but really advances the speed with minimal clicks of the throttle control. Once underway, I resorted to controlling the boat with trim tabs. Below are a few images of Thresher underway at the event:
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Due to lack of luggage space I chose to take only my 1/96 USS Thresher. In order to get it running I basically restored the 12 year old WTC which I had disassembled last summer due to leaking.
While the WTC went back together well, the electronics gave me fits. A Viper 10 amp mini speed control was new to the mix and every time I tried to fire the system up it showed a signal error. I would take it apart, check the connections, spread everything across the bench, and it would finally work. Then, once reinstalled in the WTC, the same error would occur: no transmitter signal received by the receiver. I finally gave up and threw it all in the car for the trip.
When it came time to run on Friday I buttoned things up and flipped on the system -- and it worked like a champ! I got three extended runs over two days without a glitch. It felt great to have a working boat in the water. All I can deduce is there must be some sort of significant interference at my home which is confounding my radio on the bench.
The new speed control worked well but really advances the speed with minimal clicks of the throttle control. Once underway, I resorted to controlling the boat with trim tabs. Below are a few images of Thresher underway at the event:
